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<div><h1 class="article-title">What are Realms?</h1></div>
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    <p>Realms are a combination of roles and permissions for a site. Every Sakai sites has its own unique realm. When a new site is created, it is based on a template site and copies the roles and permissions from the template. Modifications to roles and permissions within a template realm will affect all new sites created from that template. However, once created, an individual, non-template site's realm can be modified to create custom roles and/or permissions within that specific realm, independent of the original template. Realms can be viewed and modified using the administrative Realms tool.</p>
<p><strong>Site Template Realms</strong></p>
<p>Depending on the type of site being created, one of the following templates is used.</p>
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<li>If the site is a user workspace, the template used is <strong>!site.user</strong>.</li>
<li>If the site is not a user workspace, and has a type configured, the template used will be <strong>!site.template.&lt;type&gt;</strong> where &lt;type&gt; is the site type (e.g. <strong>!site.template.course</strong>, <strong>!site.template.project</strong>, etc.).</li>
<li>If there is no site type defined, the default template is <strong>!site.template</strong>.</li>
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<p><strong>User Template Realms</strong></p>
<p>User accounts are also based on realms. </p>
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<strong>!user.template.&lt;usertype&gt;</strong>, this realm depends on the user type. Do not confuse this with the user's role.</li>
<li><strong>!user.template</strong></li>
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<p><strong>Site Helper Template</strong></p>
<p>The<strong> !site.helper</strong> template can be used to force permissions on a role for all existing sites. This is useful if you have need to add new roles or change role permissions in all sites after many sites have been created. </p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">To access this tool, select Realms from the Tool Menu in the Administration Workspace.</h2>
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